Start off by not calling yourself a procrastinator.

首先，不要称自己为拖延症患者。

Would you say, Eshaan, that you're a procrastinator?

埃肖恩，你觉得自己拖延吗？

Because active procrastinators? They tend to get pretty good grades.

因为主动拖延者们的成绩往往都不错。

So I want to know what happens to the chronic procrastinators.

所以我想知道那些慢性拖延症患者 的身上到底发生了什麽。

One thing that all procrastinators have in common is that procrastination has a price.

但所有拖延者都需要面对的问题是，拖延是有代价的。

At Birch, boardgames occupy every horizontal surface, ready to draw out the procrastinator in you.

桦木酒店的每一个台面上都占据着棋盘游戏，随时准备诱发你的拖延症。

There's actually evidence that active procrastinators are more similar to non-procrastinators than to passive procrastinators in certain ways.

事实上，有证据表明，在某些方面，与被动拖延者相比，主动拖延者与非拖延者更相似。

I was what you would call a minimalist and a procrastinator.

我就是你们所说的极简主义者和拖延症患者。

And the fifth way my ADHD makes adulting hard is that I am the ultimate procrastinator.

我的 ADHD 让我的成人生活变得超级困难的第五点就是，我是一个终极拖延者。

Like procrastinators, some people may look lazy when they are really thinking, planning, contemplating and researching.

和拖延症患者一样，有些人在真正思考、计划、琢磨、研究的时候，可能会显得很懒。

One 2019 study found that active procrastinators showed higher emotional intelligence, greater persistence, and greater self-directedness compared to passive procrastinators.

2019 年的一项研究发现，与被动拖延者相比，主动拖延者表现出更高的情商、更强的坚持性和更强的自我导向性。

I had to tell her I was a procrastinator, and it had already become a pathological state.

我不得不告诉她我有拖延症 而这已经变成了一种病态。

I know that nearly everyone is a procrastinator, so share your story in the comments.

我知道几乎每个人都是一个拖拉者 所以在评论中分享你的故事吧。

Not all procrastinators are the same.

不是所有的拖延者都一样。

And lastly, Indecisive—indecisive procrastinators find it difficult to make definitive decisions, so take a long time to get anything done.

最后，优柔寡断——优柔寡断的拖延者发现很难做出明确的决定，所以要花很长时间来完成任何事情。

Just as procrastinators differ, some researchers also believe that there are different types of procrastination.

正如拖延者的不同，一些研究人员也认为拖延有不同的类型。

Now, you are all intimately familiar with the mind of a procrastinator.

各位应该都知道「拖延者」心理的想法。

Procrastinators can be smart, capable, and hard-working individuals.

拖延者可以是聪明、能干、勤奋的人。

Procrastinators like to say that you have all the time in the world.

那些有拖延症的人，他们喜欢说，还有大把时间。

Based on that, the researchers identified five subtypes of procrastinators, from mild to well-adjusted to severe.

在此基础上，研究人员确定了五种类型的拖延者，级别从轻微到适应良好再到病情严重。